The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy.

Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Edition Statement:1st American ed.

Imprint:New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991.

Descriptionxi, 277 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:"Originally published in Great Britain ... in 1990"--Verso t.p.

Note:The pursuit of the ideal -- The decline of utopian ideas in the West -- Giambattista Vico and cultural history -- Alleged relativism in 18th-century European thought -- Joseph de Maistre and the origins of fascism -- European unity and its vicissitudes -- The apotheosis of the romantic will: the revolt against the myth of an ideal world -- The bent twig: on the rise of nationalism.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Recommended in Best Books for Academic Libraries

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